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State v. Devino’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
3
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

91 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Sharpe (1985), State v. Chicano (1990)

91 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Gore v. United States

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Because the offenses of illegal possession of narcotics and illegal sale of narcotics are different offenses under Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 , 52 S.Ct. 180 , 76 L.Ed. 306 (1932)), we need not determine whether the statutes at issue contain legislative authorization of multiple punishments.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Distribution and possession are distinct criminal offenses, not only in terms of the length of time each lasts, but also in terms of what particular stage of drug trafficking each represents.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The defendant's claim of double jeopardy is also raised for the first time on appeal. Since this claim involves a question of a fundamental constitutional right, it is reviewable ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.